Overstrained and limited resources in communities influence the availability of debriefing services to traumatised community members. It is part of South African social workers’ responsibilities to attend promptly and appropriately to victims of trauma.
The literature study also clarified why it is critical to have a trauma intervention model for social workers in South Africa and provided guidelines for the development of the trauma intervention manual. The literature consulted exposes how South Africans are exposed to traumatic life events and provided a deeper understanding of the problem of trauma and trauma intervention.
The inclusion criteria that were used to help identify relevant and recent studies using key words regarding the topic of trauma, were chapters in books conference proceedings full-text journal articles and higher degree papers. Articles reviewed were identified through search engines such as Google Scholar, JSTOR, ProQuest, EBSCOHost, Boloka-NWU Institutional Repository (NWU-IR), Scopus, Science Direct and Web of Science were the databases and search engines utilized in the search. The purpose of this literature study was to draw together relevant knowledge on trauma in South Africa, trauma intervention and the importance of trauma intervention training for social workers in South Africa. The motivation for this study was built on assessments that indicated at the time of the study that social work students in South Africa receive little or no training on trauma and trauma intervention.
The trauma victims end up in the hands of social workers who are ill prepared to deal with such clients. The trauma is exacerbated by high crime rate which ranges from murder, violence, house breaking and theft. A significant proportion of South Africans are exposed to traumatic life experiences annually.
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